This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
Understanding the dynamics of knowledge diffusion has profound theoretical and practical implications across a wide variety of domains, ranging from scientific disciplines to educa...
Chaomei Chen, Weizhong Zhu, Brian M. Tomaszewski, ...
Loopy belief propagation has been employed in a wide variety of applications with great empirical success, but it comes with few theoretical guarantees. In this paper we investiga...
Sujay Sanghavi, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wills...
In the conventional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, many research projects or practical applications still use the keyword-based retrieval methods in the information searching compon...
Many boundaries impede the flow of authorization information, forcing applications that span those boundaries into hop-by-hop approaches to authorization. We present a unified app...